Quotes About A Clenched Fist

#1. An open mind is better than a clenched fist.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.

John C. Maxwell

#3. At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. There was carpet under Blanchefleur's feet and the scent of clean and delicate things in her nostrils - perfume, babies, soap, and tea. Homesickness hit her like a clenched fist; this was worse than memory.

Suzannah Rowntree

#5. Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Alistair Begg

#6. Gratitude opens a clenched fist and a closed heart.

Debasish Mridha

#7. A clenched fist can punch, but cannot embrace.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Eric Hoffer

#9. The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

Mike Huckabee

#10. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

#11. Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

Joseph Parker

#12. To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

Pat Conroy

#13. Your body is full of rage. Every sinew. It is easy to read. You speak volumes with a clenched fist.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#14. The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.

George Eliot

#15. When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#16. The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

Riane Eisler

#17. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Like is an emotion. Emotions" - he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly - "are like holding water. You open your hand, there's nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky!

Elizabeth Bishop

#20. He took the fucking piano, Sunshine. He didn't take everything. Look at your left hand. It's probably clenched in a fist right now, isn't it?"
I don't need to look. It is. He knows it.
"Now open it up and let it go."
And I do.

Katja Millay

#21. It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

Laurel Lea

#22. Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

Marie Of Romania

#23. Logically, I know I'm being controlled by my emotions. But my logic is just 2 percent right now. I feel emotionally raw." [Mystery] clenched his bedsheet in his fist. "I feel strange and empty, like after a shit.

Neil Strauss

#24. world comes to realize what I felt going up the hill, then there'll be a kind of right economy of living and of using and using up. Do you know what I mean?" Dannie had clenched his fist, but his eyes were bright as if he still laughed at himself. "Did you ever wear out a sweater

Patricia Highsmith

#25. Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Alice Duer Miller

#26. Before he could think past his rage, Aaron launched himself
at Kyran. His first strike was dodged by a chuckling Kyran. His
second was caught.

"Easy," Kyran said, holding on to Aaron's clenched fist.
"You'll pull something.

S.F. Mazhar

#27. She must continue to live life one day at a time. Neither the past nor the future existed for Eva.
She clenched her fist around her reins, drilling in the words she must never forget: 'there can only be the now.

Amy Jarecki

#28. I prepared for my meal in the usual fashion: fork in my left hand; my dominant right clenched into a fist on my lap, ready to punch anyone who dared take away my food.

Gary Shteyngart

#29. About a minute-and-a-half to go. He goes on a down-and-in pass. As soon as he caught it, I really puffed him, and his head snapped and the ball flew, and Chuck Weber fell on it. I clenched my fist, I turned around, and I closed my eyes and I said, 'This f-in game is over.'

Chuck Bednarik

#30. Will you draw your sword with your free hand?"
"I already have. Will you make a fist with yours?"
"It's clenched.

William Goldman

#31. He would send out the tumans to dominate the Sung for all time. He clenched his fist as he stood in the silence. They had almost fallen to a Mongol general. They would fall to the great khan.

Conn Iggulden

#32. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

Gayle Forman